Polar lipids are important membrane components of plant cells. They are known to affect certain membrane properties like permeability, fluidity and active transport. In the present study, individual leaf buds were tagged on the day of appearance and sampling began 7 days later. Additional samples were taken at 7 days intervals until leaf abscission occurred about 77 days after tagging. The expe...

background compounds present in green tea have proved to inhibit the growth and activity of bacteria associated with infections. objectives to assess the effects of green tea leaves extract in presence of propylene glycol on the aerobic mouth bacteria load. materials and methods saliva of 25 volunteer girl students aging 20-25 years were selected and evaluated by a mouthwash sample containing 1...

Plant anthocyanin biosynthesis is well understood, but the regulatory mechanism in purple foliage tea remains unclear. Using isobaric tag for relative and absolute quantification (iTRAQ), 815 differential proteins were identified in the leaves of Zijuan tea, among which 20 were associated with the regulation of anthocyanin metabolism. We found that the abundances of anthocyanin synthesis-relate...

For determination of selenium (Se) in biological materials, an improved method based on high performance liquid chromatographic determination of the fluorophore formed by reaction of selenite with 2,3-diaminonapththalene was developed. The concentration detection limits were 0.5 ng/g in dried materials and 0.03 ng/mL in fluid materials. In quadruplicate assays of 11 biological reference materia...

Application of green walls still has not attracted interest among the contractors and people, and this can be due to poor growing performance of the plants on these systems. This study investigated the effect of four growing media types (30% cocopeat + 65% perlite + 5% vermicompost, 30% soil + 65% perlite + 5% vermicompost, 30% mushroom compost + 65% perlite + 5% vermicompost and regular soil a...

Sixty nine pearlmillet germplasm entries of diverse origin were evaluated for seven quantitative characters and three qualitative characters for their per se performance, variability and genetic divergence. Wider variability was observed for fodder yield and its associating characters along with crude protein content. The GCV estimates were observed to be high for number of leaves per plant, nu...

Deficiencies in the amount of chlorophyll in the cotton plant have been reported in relatively few instances. BALLS (1908) made a cross between an upland cotton with light green leaves and a dark green Egyptian cotton. He states that in the Fz generation, plants with light green leaves and plants with dark green leaves appeared in a 3 : 1 ratio. STROMAN and MAHONEY (1925) recovered two chloroph...